Foreign News: Sepoy

Just before he was hanged at Lahore, last week, for assassinating an Englishwoman from political motives, ex-Private Sajah Singh said to his British executioners:

"If I had been released I would have killed every Englishman I could. Another great Sepoy mutiny is near. In the villages of India preparations for a mighty revolution are already in progress." The Sepoy (Indian soldiers) mutiny of 1857 was put down only after 100,000 Indians had been killed.

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